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Our people

Turn our employees into our most enthusiastic ambassadors

Yoga teacher in a hotel, saluting his student

The quality of our hospitality would be hollow without our employees' dedication. This is why we have spun our Feel Welcome tagline – promising our guests simple, universal and inviting hospitality – into a similar promise for our employees.

Our goal? To act as an inclusive company, meaning we:

Are open to all and proud of our differences

Empower people and encourage talent to blossom

Care about our employees’ wellbeing and balance

See differences as opportunities to spur innovation, grow local roots, step up performance and nurture dedication

Arantxa Balson

Feel Valued is our pledge that our employees will enjoy a positive and fulfilling experience

Arantxa Balson

Talent & Culture Director

Arantxa Balson

Our commitments for 2020

1 The employee engagement index increases every year

2 Each country implements a health/wellbeing at work program

335% of hotel General Managers are women by 2017

4Employees' perception of the Group's high level of CSR engagement is increasing

Engagement is so much more than satisfaction and motivation. It grows stronger when an employee’s and the company’s stories intertwine.

It is all about surpassing ourselves, excelling, and blazing a trail to success together.Today, this is our goal for our employees.

As our Group is reviewing its options to step up its performance and rolling out a new leadership model, employee engagement is naturally emerging as a key success factor. This is what prompted us to overhaul our engagement survey and to scale it up to the entire Group.

The goal is to measure employee engagement.

Our business is all about human contact, and it is an established fact that employee engagement and performance are closely linked. High engagement indexes and motivation levels influence performance indicators such as customer satisfaction, team productivity and sales.

The aim is therefore to constantly increase:

• Employee fulfilment
• Guest satisfaction
• Business performance

What we are doing already

We entirely overhauled the engagement survey(1), and ran the new survey worldwide for the first time from September to November 2015.

The goal: compile a full picture of the situation, to fine-tune our action plans.

This extensive survey provides a 360° view of our options to nurture employee engagement. It encompasses: • Wellbeing; • Social climate; • Motivation; • Pride in belonging; • Equal opportunity; • AccorHotels’ position as a benchmark employer; • Our employees’ perceptions of our vales from where they are standing.

1. THIS SURVEY COVERED ALL HEAD OFFICE AND HOTEL EMPLOYEES, EXCLUDING FRANCHISEES. IT IS ANONYMOUS AND CONFIDENTIAL.

ENGAGEMENT INDEX COMPONENTS

• The engagement index is based on employee feedback in three areas: • Their dedication to the Group; • Their willingness to recommend the Group to other people; • Their motivation at work.

In 2015, 80% of the 135,000 people we asked to take the survey replied. Results showed the Group engagement index stood at 68%, reflecting high employee dedication levels.
The main pointers for progress: • Recognition for individual or team contributions; • Improve work organization and working conditions.

What we plan to do for the future

Constantly deepening employee engagement is at the core of our Planet 21 commitments.

We plan to mainstream this survey and use findings at every level in the organization, from the head offices to the hotels.

The goals: • Compile an overview of the situation then track progress year after year; • Openly publish survey results, including all necessary breakdowns (Group, country, brand, region, function, etc.); • Identify pointers for progress and opportunities to increase engagement; • Roll out operational action plans for each team based on survey findings; • Support the new Talent & Culture strategy "TALENT & CULTURE" and new leadership model.

One sign of AccorHotels’ determination to rally teams around efforts to enhance engagement is the fact that the Group engagement index will be factored into managers’ bonuses starting in 2016.

Because everything we do hinges on human contact. Because our hotel employees may work shifts, nights, holidays and weekends. Because happy employees keep customers happy. Because welcoming, serving and caring for customers is at the heart of our jobs.

For all of these reasons, we are certain that caring about our employees, their working conditions and their work-life balance, is the best way to ensure we provide outstanding service.

In 2015

85%

200

employees in France, took training courses in preventing and managing stress at work, stress-management tools, and transitioning from stress to serenity

90

employees in Belgium and Luxembourg, took part in six sessions on averting burnout

35 000

employees have been briefed on HIV/AIDS-related risks

«Fit and Happy@AccorHotels»

This program developed by the Benelux countries prepares employees for their new jobs and focuses on health-related issues.
It includes:

Workshops on healthy eating and lifestyles;

Coaches available for employees;

Team-building sports challenges.

What we plan to do for the future

By enshrining wellbeing at work among the key commitments in its new strategy looking at 2016-2020, AccorHotels plans to take employee dedication to the next level.

Specifically, the Group plans to:

step up awareness of issues revolving around health and wellbeing at work, in particular among managers;

mainstream best practices to blend them into country-level Talent & Culture policies;

organize and channel health and wellness at work initiatives so that they reach as many people as possible;

identify the opportunities to take action at the most relevant level, i.e. in hotels.

We will advance in this direction with the Planet 21 In Action roadmap for hotels. This roadmap will encourage them to take concrete action aimed at improving employee health and wellbeing. The Talent & Culture teams will support their initiatives on this front, and furnish them with specific resources.

The Group’s unbending efforts to promote diversity and inclusion go back a very long way, and it took a formal stand on these issues in 2008.

This is one of the principles underlying our managerial ethics and our resulting drive against discrimination and for equal opportunity.
Our vision of diversity cascades into 4 goals:

Raise awareness among men employees and encourage them to foster gender equality;

Encourage changes in attitudes in synch with changes in the hospitality industry;

Roll out local action plans to foster diversity, tailored to each country’s cultural and legal environment, and backed by a toolbox to support implementation;

Promote diversity through the Planet 21 In Action roadmap.

WOMEN AT ACCORHOTELS GENERATION

A network of 4,000 people around the world;

A network open to women and men;

A mission: debunk stereotypes and self-censorship among women;

A vision: “We aim for every woman to achieve her ambition!”

Committing to sustainable development is one step in the right direction. Acting on those commitments is one step further.

We are going even further: asking our employees to tell us what they think about our CSR programs. In 2015, we set up a CSR index. It measures employees’ feelings as regards our Planet 21 drive and how earnest or otherwise we are about it.

An innovative indicator
Companies are typically more concerned with how outside stakeholders – customers, partners, etc. – perceive their CSR policy. At AccorHotels, our employees’ perceptions are just as important.
It is a matter of trust, ethics and transparency:
Firstly, because our CSR commitments apply to our employees and they are the cornerstone of our sustainable development policy.

They are its ambassadors:

They translate the policy’s principles into their everyday jobs and lives;

They tell customers about them, to involve them in our efforts.

72%, the Group’s CSR index in 2015. This score is high. But we are aiming higher.

Then, because CSR inspires employees and nurtures their loyalty:

when employees embark on a sustainable drive,

they become more committed to their jobs and to customer satisfaction,

they find more meaning in what they do and their allegiance to their employer grows.

Lastly, because relationships between employees and their companies are changing. Careers are becoming less linear and less smooth:

they change companies more often;

they also change tracks and expect their jobs to have meaning.

Our aim is to stay one step ahead of this trend. Assuming our responsibility as an employer also means providing employees with meaningful prospects. Whether they choose to grow within the Group or prefer to move on.

CSR index components

Our new engagement survey has provided us with a solid and significant Group-wide CSR index, and now puts us in a position to track it. This index measures employee perceptions of the related issues.

Perceptions of the Group’s social and environmental action;

Its efforts to promote diversity and inclusion;

Its working environments and willingness to embrace differences;

Its policy to develop skills.

What we are doing already

Explaining and training. This is the first step to raise employee awareness of our commitment to sustainable development.

We have inter alia developed an e-learning program available in 10 languages. It comprises two modules:

Sustainable development awareness:
- The issues and challenges;
- The hotel and its environment;
- Planet 21.

The rights things to do:
- How to tell customers about Planet 21 and the hotel’s initiatives;
- Why small changes matter and how to make a difference at work.

We also circulate sustainable development fact sheets to the Group’s business lines with the information they need to know and the initiatives they can take.

Two highlights
Every year, all our employees worldwide gather for Planet 21 Day. This day focuses on rallying the teams and taking action around our commitment to sustainable development. It takes place on or around April 22nd (Earth Day, and the date we kicked off our first Planet 21 program).

Every year, we also organize a Solidarity Week. The goal is to encourage employees to reach out to the disadvantaged, with local charities.

300 ideas published, 6 awards.

The figures from the Group challenge for Planet 21 Day 2015.
The theme was “Nothing is lost, everything is transformed”, and the challenge encouraged hotel and head office employees to share their best practices to reduce, reuse and recycle waste.More than 350 hotels in 33 countries joined forces for the 10th Solidarity Week, in 2015.

7,600

employees involved in the operation

7,500

beneficiaries

What we plan to do for the future

How we can increase our Group’s CSR index?

By enabling all employees to share best practices and initiatives, through Planet 21, Solidarity AccorHotels (our endowment fund to support the most deprived) or more local projects;

By making the Group’s commitments more visible;

Lastly, the Group’s in-house social network provides a channel to express this commitment.